Up at the Athenaeum I had a fun morning documenting artefacts we had borrowed from various local orchardists to form part of an exhibition we had on the local apple industry in the first half or so of the twentieth century.
Even though we are not a collecting institution we thought it was important to record the items and their provenance while there were still people around who knew and understood the significance of the older tools.
I basically used the same paperless methodology that I used documenting the kitchen at Lake View.
As such it worked well and let me practice my documentation skills.
I've also returned to one of my old interests, the first world war and have blogged both about a British propaganda postcard I picked up recently, as well as the history of the both the German and Austro Hungarian (really the Hungarian) coinage during world war one and after when they replaced the low value cupronickel coins with coins struck from iron.
And I had a technical triumph of which I'm quite proud - I managed to successfully upgrade an old out-of-updates Chromebook to linux, something that will hopefully extend the life and usefulness of the hardware.
And in a very real sense the workbench I made out of recycled materials has come into its own, giving me a space to disembowel computers, set up lightboxes and photograph artefacts etc.
It's quite refreshing to finally have a dedicated workspace after years packing equipment away in boxes and never having quite enough space to do things ...
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